Improvement in soap-holders



S. HARLOW & H. P. BAILEY.

SOAP-HOLDER.

Patented May 23,1876.

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- SAMUEL HARLOW. AND HORACE P. BAILEY, 0F PLYMOUTH, MASS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOAP-HOLDERS.

' Specification forming part of Letters Petedt No. 177,712, dated May 23, 1876; application filed February 26, 1876..

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, SAMUELHARLOW and HORACE P. BAILEY, both of Plymouth, Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Soap- Holder, of which the following is aspecification: I

Asoaprholder embodying our invention is shown in the drawing in perspective.

handle d e, as shown. The idea of thus forming a soap holder of smooth perforated metal is to avoid the great and unnecessary abrasion -and,'loss of soap occasioned when the holder ismade of wire-gauze. Also, when the box is constructed in two equal parts, as is the usual way, the soap easily drops out. This is avoided when the body is made deep and provided with a simple lid, b, as here shown.

I t The handle is made of wire and double, with a spring, 0,,at one end; the two p'artscross each other aboutthe middle of the handle, so

that the upper part d is soldered to the soapbox, and the lower part 0 is soldered to the cover. By this means the box is kept closed, and can only be opened by raising the part c between the cover and the point where d and 0 cross each other, and after being slightly raised is to be moved horizontally to the left.

We are aware that William J. Johnsonhas obtained Letters Patent for improvement in Soap-holders, especially in the handle; but our improvement differs from his in that he contemplates so arranging the handle that the pressing together of its outer portion will have the effect of separating the two parts ot the soap-box; whereas, in our invention such pressure would have the efl'ect only to close the box more tightly, if possible, than before, this efl'ect being produced by the crossing of the two parts of the handle. The body of his holder is also made in two equal half-sections, and of wire-gauze, which is difi'erent from and 9* does not accomplish the same purposes as ours.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- As a new article of manufacture, a soapholder, composed of the struck-up perforated metal cap and bottom plates 1) d, the perforated sheet-metal body a,

and having the spring-coil a, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

- SAMUEL HARLOW. H. P. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

AL ERT MASON, FRANK HARLOW.

and the spring-wire handles d e, crossed midway of their length, 

